AK Project Help

My son turns 18 tomorrow. He is dying for a 5.45mm AK75 build, but wants a bit of the AK105 look/feature set. I have a local builder available to help (Troy @InRange C2), but getting the parts together is my hold up. The receiver is easy, and I get the 922r stuff, but I'm struggling to figure out a few things.

The kits have dried up (duh, Matt) and it looks like a Bulgarian kit ($350-450) might be a good start point. New US barrels are available, so that's not to big a deal. I guess I'm wondering how to approach this to avoid squandering cash. The boy wants:

Since so little of a parts kit will be used would it be better to just try to piece this together? All told, will be providing new receiver, barrel, rivets, ALG trigger group, Krebs safety, flash hider, furniture, likely a different top cover, FSB/gas block combo, rear SF stock and trunion, rear sight block. My builder has most of the misc small parts on hand.

Make sense? Any help or guidance appreciated. I dug into the big, modernized AK thread, but the info is getting dated and the pics are mostly gone. Anyone got a line on a parts kit?

"It's when you fuck up that you will hear from your peers, not when you are doing your job. We expect people to do their jobs, and don't praise them like six year olds who successfully tied their shoes when they do. " - Fatty

I would use a Green mountain barrel or a Bulgarian one (k-var might have them). I like Childers receivers. AK-builder has side folding stocks with trunnions.

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"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms." - R. Heinlen

Oh, for 922 compliance you will probably need a US made trigger group: ALG, G2, Fime Group, etc.

74 mags have gone up in price but aren't too bad still. The Magpul ones are cheaper and reportedly work well, my 7.62x39 pmags work great (but I have no 5.45 anything).

comblock grips are small so I would recommend a Magpul or US Palm (if you can find one), which will also help with 922 compliance.

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"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms." - R. Heinlen

Me for one. European except for the Yugo/Serbian are 1mm sheet steel and almost anything will interchange for a basic rifle. Things start to get a little different if you are looking at folding stocks or the Hungarian rifles. Yugos and Chinese are 1.5mm sheet metal. Except the M92 series. They are back to 1mm.

AK74s have mag well differences from the 7.62 guns. Sidefolders have a different angle on the rear of the receiver and a different trunnion. A few other things. Romanian AK74 variant has a slanted gas block, all others are 90 degree.

Chinese are 1.6mm. Yugos with bulged trunnions are 1.5mm as are RPKs, which also have bulged trunnions.

Chinese barrels also have smaller journals so they require proprietary front trunnions.

Yugo barrels are AK47 thickness as opposed to AKM, and yugo furniture is all proprietary.

AKM and AK74 furniture is interchangeable. The handguards and fixed stocks.

Triggers are pretty much universal, as are 7.62x39mm and 5.45x39 magazines. 223/5.56 AK mags are generally only good for country of origin guns.

Bolts and Bolt carriers are often in interchangeable (within caliber) but need to be headspaced .

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"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms." - R. Heinlen

"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms." - R. Heinlen

Thanks for the replies, I knew we had some knowledgeable folks here. Agreed that a complete gun is likely a better/faster route, however this is as much about him "learning" how the gun is built and being able to help with that process as it is about having the rifle. Sounds like I'll pick up a kit and start piecing the other stuff together. Childers vs. NDS vs. McKay for receiver? Any difference and does anyone make it with the correct AK100 series left-side folding stock cut?

Planning a new US barrel and ALG trigger. Saberworks block is one we were looking at.

"It's when you fuck up that you will hear from your peers, not when you are doing your job. We expect people to do their jobs, and don't praise them like six year olds who successfully tied their shoes when they do. " - Fatty

I'm at work and my computer blocks most gun related sites, but I believe NDS makes a receiver cut for a sidefolder. I think they make them in 5.45mm for the AK74, AND 7.62 if you want a "Khyber Pass" build.

"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms." - R. Heinlen

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